Max Vielgut papers
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Creator(s)
- Max Vielgut
Biographical History
Max Vielgut, the younger brother of the donor’s mother, was born in 1909 in Vienna, Austria, where he studied music and worked as a musician. After the annexation of Austria by Germany, he fled to Belgium, where he remained from 1939 until the German invasion. He was captured and imprisoned by the Germans in 1940, and was later transferred to Saint-Cyprien camp in France. In November, he and the other prisoners were transferred to Gurs. In early 1941, he was assigned to a Foreign Worker Unit in Agen. In September, he was moved to Lyon, where he was a working musician. He was later sent to Blechhammer, then Buchenwald, where he perished in 1945, when the camp was liberated.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Evelyn Banko
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Evelyn Banko donated the Max Vielgut papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013. Max Vielgut is Evelyn Banko's maternal uncle.
Scope and Content
The Max Vielgut papers consists of documents and correspondence related to Max Vielgut, a musician originally from Vienna, Austria. The papers include his correspondence from pre-war Vienna, from the period after his escape to Belgium, as well as in France, where he was interned in various concentration camps, including Saint-Cyprien and Gurs.
System of Arrangement
The Max Vielgut papers are arranged in a single series.
People
- Vielgut, Max.
Corporate Bodies
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
- Saint-Cyprien (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- France.
- Austria.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna--History.
- Lyon (France)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
- Jewish musicians--Austria--Vienna.
Genre
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Identification documents.